Unknown (garbled name) certificates shown as invalid - Are they safe?
From: *Vanguard* (no-email_at_post-reply-in-newsgroup.nix)
Date: 12/04/03
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Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:15:44 -0600
I went into the Certificate Manager (added as a snap-in to an
administrator MMC that I created) to export my security certificates for
EFS and e-mail. This is so I can have them to restore if I have to
rebuild the system. I noticed under the "Certificates - Current User ->
REQUEST -> Certificates" node that about a dozen certificates were
listed that have garbled names, like "3rg938xjHhx89D46". When I
double-click on any one of them, it tells me that the certificate is
corrupted or may have been altered.
So what is the "REQUEST" node in the tree for CertMgr supposed to
contain? Can I delete these supposedly invalid certificates? Were
these perhaps for e-mail certificates that had expired or could not be
verified (because Outlook has problems with verification if the CA
authority listed in the certificate also doesn't specify a download path
to the CRL [certificate revocation list] to authenticate the
certificate)? If these certificates are indeed invalid, it seems that I
should be able to delete them since they cannot be used.
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